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On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Boris Derzhavets <bderzhavets@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Freddie,
> Is your box built on AMD chips ?
> I was told that Intel (C2D) based boxes wouldn't
> support some Xen 3.2 VT code.
Yes, we're using AMD processors (our shop has been 98% AMD since the
Athlon-MP was released). Although Xen 3.2 is supposed to have the
fixes needed to run FreeBSD in an HVM on Intel CPUs.
Our setup:
Tyan h2000M motherbord
2x dual-core Opteron 2200-series @ 2.8 GHz
8 GB DDR2-667 ECC SDRAM
3Ware 9650SE-12ML PCIe RAID controller
12x 500 GB SATA-II HDs in a RAID6
(auto-carved into 1 TB chunks and then added to an LVM
volume group, since device-mapper in Debian Lenny
chokes on pysical devices larger than 2 TB)
24-bay hotswappable SATA backplane
Intel Pro/1000MT quad-port PCIe NIC
5U case with 4-way redundant powersupply
Originally running Ubuntu Hardy with Xen 3.2
Currently running Debian Lenny with KVM-60
I had the following Xen 3.2 HVMs running on the system:
2x 32-bit FreeBSD 6.2
2x 32-bit FreeBSD 7.0
1x 64-bit FreeBSD 7.0
1x 32-bit Windows XP
2x 32-bit CentOS 5.1 (these have since been replaced with 64-bit
CentOS 5.1 installs)
Since these were done using logical volumes as the basis for the
virtual harddrives, I was able to keep the storage while I did a bunch
of Debian and Ubuntu installs trying to find the most stable Xen
setup. Then when I moved to KVM, it was as as simple as pointing KVM
to same logical volume.
The Xen setup had 4 separate bridges (eth0 through 3, gigabit ports)
that I manually assigned to the various HVMs, since I was never able
to get a bonded interface in the dom0 to pass packets through the
bridge.
The KVM setup has a single bridge device comprised of a bonded
interface made up of the 4 gigabit interfaces.
--
Freddie Cash
fjwcash@xxxxxxxxx
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